Wild aircraft are the hallmark of AirVenture, the world’s largest get-together for pilots, which starts today in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) airshow last year ...

Flying an ultralight aircraft doesn’t require a pilot’s license, registration or — in Illinois, anyway — the use of a restricted landing area. Despite this liberal policy, flying is flying, and it’s ...

They fly low and slow over the border, their wings painted black and motors humming faintly under moonlit skies. The pilots, some armed in the open cockpits, steer the horizontal control bar with one ...

Ultralight aviation provides an excellent pathway for those who want to fly, but don’t want to get licensed. These quite often cheap and cheerful DIY aircraft often hide some excellent engineering ...

Humans have been dreaming of personal flight for as long as we’ve watched birds soar overhead. In 1917 — just 31 years after the invention of the automobile — American journalist C.H. Claudy imagined ...

[Peter Sripol] is something of a legend in the DIY RC aircraft crowd. He’s friends with Flite Test, and there he built an enormous RC cargo plane that could easily carry a small child aloft. Now, ...

Bottom line: For now, eVTOLs remain niche products – technological curiosities that combine drone automation, recreational aviation, and the promise of personal air mobility. Their development ...